The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
000173
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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THE TALKIES III light is situated, and are then separated again, the exposed positive film being then sent to the laboratory for development and the negative being rewound and transferred to the other side again, ready to make another print. As we have seen, it is usual to record the soundtrack on separate machines and then to print the track beside the picture after the picture has been printed, because the sound-track requires very exact uniform exposure conditions as opposed to the picture portion, which has to be developed and printed to all sorts of degrees of contrast, which vary with each particular scene. The oldtime printers were not arranged for any other process than the simple printing of the picture over the whole surface of the film. Step by step printers expose the film picture by picture in jerks, differing from the continuous type in that they operate in a vertical direction, the spools being mounted above and below each other, the feed spools being above the "gate"; the light being obscured from the films as they are moving from one picture to another by a revolving shutter, much the same way as in the cameras. The continuous printer runs the two films smoothly and continuously through past the light.